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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 15, 2020 11:49:28 GMT -5
Somehow a gremlin (or perhaps a misguided elf) at Watermark made an across-the-board error during production of the All-Time Christmas Hits program from December 22, 1973. All references to the Royal Guardsmen song -- "Snoopy's Christmas" -- noted it as "Snoopy's First Christmas." Not only is it listed incorrectly on the cue sheets, but it's also wrong on the in-house song and script cards. Yes, Casey also announced the title incorrectly. Did that misinformed elf confuse the Snoopy recording with "Baby's First Christmas" by Connie Francis? Stay tuned. Santa is looking over the list, and checking it twice.  |
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Post by papathree on Nov 15, 2020 13:28:55 GMT -5
Somehow a gremlin (or perhaps a misguided elf) at Watermark made an across-the-board error during production of the All-Time Christmas Hits program from December 22, 1973. All references to the Royal Guardsmen song -- "Snoopy's Christmas" -- noted it as "Snoopy's First Christmas." Not only is it listed incorrectly on the cue sheets, but it's also wrong on the in-house song and script cards. Yes, Casey also announced the title incorrectly. Did that misinformed elf confuse the Snoopy recording with "Baby's First Christmas" by Connie Francis? Stay tuned. Santa is looking over the list, and checking it twice. Not a cue sheet error, but in Casey's intro to the Dec 22, 1973 All-Time Christmas Hits Special he said "we're including versions from classic Christmas albums by Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, The Temptations, and Diana Ross & The Supremes, Jose Feliciano, and The Jackson Five." I just finished listening to the show on WNIC and I don't recall ever hearing any song (or bit of a song) by The Temptations in the show. All the other acts mentioned in the intro by Casey were included somewhere in this survey. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 16, 2020 8:17:57 GMT -5
Somehow a gremlin (or perhaps a misguided elf) at Watermark made an across-the-board error during production of the All-Time Christmas Hits program from December 22, 1973. All references to the Royal Guardsmen song -- "Snoopy's Christmas" -- noted it as "Snoopy's First Christmas." Not only is it listed incorrectly on the cue sheets, but it's also wrong on the in-house song and script cards. Yes, Casey also announced the title incorrectly. Did that misinformed elf confuse the Snoopy recording with "Baby's First Christmas" by Connie Francis? Stay tuned. Santa is looking over the list, and checking it twice. Not a cue sheet error, but in Casey's intro to the Dec 22, 1973 All-Time Christmas Hits Special he said "we're including versions from classic Christmas albums by Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, The Temptations, and Diana Ross & The Supremes, Jose Feliciano, and The Jackson Five." I just finished listening to the show on WNIC and I don't recall ever hearing any song (or bit of a song) by The Temptations in the show. All the other acts mentioned in the intro by Casey were included somewhere in this survey. Good catch. According to the show’s note cards, it appears that The Temptations had two songs available (“The Little Drummer Boy” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer”) for use within the countdown. Perhaps because the songs ranked so close to the program’s end, #3 and #2 respectively, production time to use them – either in full or just a portion – just ran out. |
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 16, 2020 8:36:42 GMT -5
Not a cue sheet error, but in Casey's intro to the Dec 22, 1973 All-Time Christmas Hits Special he said "we're including versions from classic Christmas albums by Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, The Temptations, and Diana Ross & The Supremes, Jose Feliciano, and The Jackson Five." I just finished listening to the show on WNIC and I don't recall ever hearing any song (or bit of a song) by The Temptations in the show. All the other acts mentioned in the intro by Casey were included somewhere in this survey. Good catch. According to the show’s note cards, it appears that The Temptations had two songs available (“The Little Drummer Boy” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer”) for use within the countdown. Perhaps because the songs ranked so close to the program’s end, #3 and #2 respectively, production time to use them – either in full or just a portion – just ran out. A Christmas song by the Temptations could have been used as an OPTIONAL EXTRA anyway... |
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Post by chrislc on Nov 16, 2020 18:52:03 GMT -5
Good catch. According to the show’s note cards, it appears that The Temptations had two songs available (“The Little Drummer Boy” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer”) for use within the countdown. Perhaps because the songs ranked so close to the program’s end, #3 and #2 respectively, production time to use them – either in full or just a portion – just ran out. A Christmas song by the Temptations could have been used as an OPTIONAL EXTRA anyway... I once had a PD who would use Silent Night by the Temptations for his bathroom breaks. 6:09. Only in December of course. |
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Post by mga707 on Nov 16, 2020 20:00:27 GMT -5
A Christmas song by the Temptations could have been used as an OPTIONAL EXTRA anyway... I once had a PD who would use Silent Night by the Temptations for his bathroom breaks. 6:09. Only in December of course. A six-minute 'Silent Night'? Must've been a Norman Whitfield production, a la "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"... |
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Post by slf on Nov 20, 2020 6:32:45 GMT -5
Looking at the cue sheet for the upcoming November 28, 1970 show, I noticed that positions 38 and 37 listed the same song---"Deeper And Deeper" by Freda Payne. (Although I personally wouldn't mind hearing this song twice, because it's a fantastic old school R&B song, so powerfully soulful and majestic!)
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 21, 2020 9:20:53 GMT -5
Somehow a gremlin (or perhaps a misguided elf) at Watermark made an across-the-board error during production of the All-Time Christmas Hits program from December 22, 1973. All references to the Royal Guardsmen song -- "Snoopy's Christmas" -- noted it as "Snoopy's First Christmas." Not only is it listed incorrectly on the cue sheets, but it's also wrong on the in-house song and script cards. Yes, Casey also announced the title incorrectly. Did that misinformed elf confuse the Snoopy recording with "Baby's First Christmas" by Connie Francis? Stay tuned. Santa is looking over the list, and checking it twice. As Charlie Brown would say, "Good grief!" (Also remember a line in the famous classic Rankin-Bass Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: "A dentist, good grief!") |
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Post by mkarns on Nov 22, 2020 21:22:58 GMT -5
The November 21, 1987 cue sheet doesn't mention the replay of "I Think We're Alone Now", the previous week's #1, at the start of the show--one of the last times in the original Casey era when AT40 began by replaying anything from the top of last week's chart.
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Post by Mike on Dec 5, 2020 11:56:57 GMT -5
December 1, 1979.
Starts with last week's Top 3 as is usual, and the songs are listed in the proper order. Their respective positions, however, are reversed - thus, it reads:
LW#1. STILL (A) Commodores
LW#2. BABE (A) Styx
LW#3. NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) (B) Donna Summer/Barbra Streisand
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Post by JMW on Dec 6, 2020 13:56:27 GMT -5
I finally got around to signing in to this board after two months, so here's the cue sheet errors I've been keeping track of on a Notepad document during my off-time: 10/5/1985Other than the one mentioned here, the other one is on the #24 song: the "s" is left off of Eddie Kendricks' name on the Live at the Apollo medley. This error is also seen on the 10/19/1985 cue sheet. 10/11/1980
Donna Summer's name is left off The Wanderer at #18.
10/19/1985Other than the Live at the Apollo error mentioned above (at #31 on this show), the other one has the "S" missing from "Lives" in Separate Lives at #29. 10/29/1983- The "I is left off of How Am I Supposed to Live Without You at #37.
- The "the" is left off of Queen of the Broken Hearts at #25.
- This Time is listed as song #25 when it's supposed to be #24.
- The "S" on "Supply in Air Supply at #6 is in lowercase.
11/8/1986- The Life in One Day LDD is credited to Glass Tiger instead of Howard Jones (likely because Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone is the song before it).
- The bottom of page 11: AMERICAN TOP 40 HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU IN PARTY BY PONTIAC AMERICA'S ROAD CAR COMPANY...
11/15/1980- The #39 song If You Should Sail is credited to Neilson/Pearson.
- The first LDD song (Barry Manilow's Could It Be Magic) is listed as Could This Be Magic.
11/21/1987Other than the error mentioned here (which I didn't notice), there were these two that I did notice: - On Need You Tonight at #38, the last three letters in "INXS" is written in lowercase.
- Don't Make Me Wait For Love at #37 is only credited to Kenny G.
11/24/1984- The #32 song is Born in the USA by Bruce Springteen.
- At #31, "John Cafferty" and "Beaver Brown Band" is written in all caps (I consider this an error since artist names aren't typed in like that).
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Post by JMW on Dec 7, 2020 14:54:20 GMT -5
The cue sheet for the 12/13/1986 show is error-free, but there is one on the 12/13/1980 one: Guilty at #9 is credited to Barbra Streisand and Barry Gib. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 9, 2020 18:16:20 GMT -5
The final regular show of 2020 was the final regular show of America's Bi-Centennial 12/18/76! www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/12-18-76.pdfLast played 2016 w/extras: New Kid In Town: Eagles Fly Like An Eagle: Steve Miller Band Hard Luck Woman: Kiss Might as well mention it now ... the cue sheets for this show are misdated as December 11, 1976. |
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Post by mkarns on Dec 9, 2020 18:34:22 GMT -5
The final regular show of 2020 was the final regular show of America's Bi-Centennial 12/18/76! www.charismusicgroup.com/Cue%20Sheets/12-18-76.pdfLast played 2016 w/extras: New Kid In Town: Eagles Fly Like An Eagle: Steve Miller Band Hard Luck Woman: Kiss Might as well mention it now ... the cue sheets for this show are misdated as December 11, 1976. The same cue sheets refer to Gordon Lightfoot telling of the wreck of the Edmund "Fitzgerlad", a "Love Balland" from LTD, and "Englebert" Humperdinck singing someone to sleep after the lovin'. Referring to part of the Dr. Buzzard & Co. hit as "Se Si Bon" is probably linguistically incorrect, but that's what the record label said so it gets a pass. |
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 19, 2020 5:53:02 GMT -5
Is omission an error? I can't find the 1971 Yearend Countdown for Numbers 80-41. When I go to the cue sheets, it gives 12-25-71 as the Christmas Countdown, and 1-1-72 gives number 40 thru 1.
If anyone can post this, it sure would be appreciated. I do love following along with the songs played.
Thanks and Happy Holidays to all.
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